Tiw Surname
Approximately 171 people bear this surname
Tiw Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 123 | 1:239,790 | 13,649 |
| Singapore | 17 | 1:323,983 | 13,856 |
| Taiwan | 11 | 1:2,131,341 | 13,802 |
| Pakistan | 8 | 1:22,330,486 | 77,733 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
Tiw (309) may also be a first name.
Tiw Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Tiw Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Tiw is found most frequently in Malaysia. It can also be rendered as a variant:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Tiw? popularity and diffusion
The surname Tiw is the 1,315,412th most widely held surname worldwide, held by around 1 in 42,617,228 people. It occurs mostly in Asia, where 97 percent of Tiw live; 86 percent live in Southeast Asia and 73 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. It is also the 500,178th most commonly used first name globally. It is borne by 309 people.
The last name is most frequent in Malaysia, where it is held by 123 people, or 1 in 239,790. In Malaysia Tiw is most numerous in: Selangor, where 80 percent are found, Johor, where 6 percent are found and Malacca, where 5 percent are found. Without taking into account Malaysia this surname exists in 8 countries. It is also common in Singapore, where 10 percent are found and Taiwan, where 6 percent are found.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Tiw
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